Saturday, January 09, 2010

Taliban spinning CIA bomber

Quote from CIA bombers English version of the Video:
"offered me millions of dollars....arranged together....arranged this attack....this suicide attack......"

At the time of this video he had not internalized the suicide attack,
he didn't say "My suicide attack" he said "This suicide attack"

The video its self was a rushed job, it is in a 'safe house' without
electricity the Two lights used to film the video were Battery operated.
the room they filmed in was cold, note the outer garments they both wore
and how he kept pulling his robe around him to keep warm, but you couldn't
see their breath. So it wasn't freezing but was cold and dark, only source of
light was the video lights.

Pulling his robe together.

The Taliban leaders body language is very interesting.

Leader is showing him no respect.

Our analysis of the video shows they were setting on the same rug that

the camera was on, as one point one adjusts his position and the cameras
moves ever so slightly, you can see this in the shift of the banner in the background.

The first video was in Arabic and the second video was in English.
We are not posting either.

The English video they moved the camera forward for better details.
And note the Taliban commander said nothing, and looked toward the
suicide bomber a few times with a look of surprise.

What? ( look )

The rush job of the video suggests they did not train him, just
gave him a belt and a button and sent him on his way.
The setting and timing suggests a rushed job.

There is the possibility they caught him spying and gave
him the choice of beheading or suicide bombing, coupled
with threats to his family, and appeals to paradise, virgins,
and GREAT after death PR. Which may explain why there
is no real "maryters WILL" VIDEO...

Picking his nose!! During Maryters Will?

This Muslim bomber is not esteemed !

The head of the Taliban can barely stand him.

And as a Muslim this 'last will' leaves a lot to be desired.

And the video adds to speculation as to why all the confusion in
the early news releases by the Taliban.

There is some speculation as to a connection to the Yemen bomber
and additional spys on the CIA base.HERE.

There is much to the post bombing handling by the Taliban that
just isn't fitting together.

More to come. The part about him being a Taliban suicide bomber
stinks. Too much doesn't fit.

Gerald
Anthropologist

Our old paradigm, we still can't fit it all together
yet. G
This doesn't fit the story "Taliban Bomber", either.

Joint Afgan- Paki anti-terrorist border force.

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani military has rejected US demands that Islamabad crack down on the strongest Taliban warrior in Afghanistan, Siraj Haqqani, whose fighters pose the biggest threat to American forces, Pakistani military officials and diplomats told the New York Times.

An analyst said Pakistan was reluctant to act against Haqqani, as it considered “Haqqani and his control of broad swaths of Afghan territory vital to Pakistan in the jostling for influence that will pit Pakistan, India, Russia, China and Iran in the post-American Afghan arena”. “If America walks away, Pakistan is very worried that it will have India on its eastern border and India on its western border in Afghanistan,” said Tariq Fatemi, a former Pakistani ambassador to the US who is pro-American in his views. For that reason, Fatemi told NYT that the Pakistan Army was “very reluctant” to jettison Haqqani. In his reply to the US, Gen Ashfaq Kayani had urged a short-term argument, according to two Pakistani officials familiar with the response.

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A joint Afghan and Pakisatani Border force could do quite wellin ending the cross border attacks both ways, as that force could pursue the Terrorist no mater what border they crossed.And would build confidence between nations and other jointventures.

The Judge giveth and taketh away

and

Judge Urbina was appointed to the United States District Court in July 1994. He received a B.A. in 1967 from Georgetown University and graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1970. He served as staff attorney for the D.C. Public Defender Service from 1970 to 1972 and then entered private practice. From 1974 to 1981 he taught at Howard University Law School and directed the University's Criminal Justice Program. He was appointed Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in April 1981, and served as Presiding Judge of the Court's Family Division from 1985 to 1988.

Rather than focus exclusively on killing the enemy, expand the focus to how

the enemy fits into the cultural net.

And how to turn the cultural net against the Terrorist and actions to support

that action.

Excerpts from:

Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan.

By Major General Michael T. Flynn, USA

Captain Matt Pottinger, USMC

Paul D. Batchelor, DIA

Lacking sufficient numbers of analysts and guidance from commanders, battalion S-2 shops rarely gather, process, and write up quality assessments on countless items, such as: census data and patrol debriefs; minutes from shuras with local farmers and tribal leaders; after-action reports from civil affairs officers and Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs); polling data and atmospherics reports from psychological operations and female engagement teams; and translated summaries of radio broadcasts that influence local farmers, not to mention the field observations of Afghan soldiers, United Nations officials, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This vast and underappreciated body of information, almost all of which is unclassified, admittedly offers few clues about where to find insurgents, but it does provide elements of even greater strategic importance – a map for leveraging popular support and marginalizing the insurgency itself.

Some battalion S-2 officers say they acquire more information that is helpful by reading U.S. newspapers than through reviewing regional command intelligence summaries.

The second inescapable truth asserts that merely killing insurgents usually serves to multiply enemies rather than subtract them. This counterintuitive dynamic is common in many guerrilla conflicts and is especially relevant in the revenge-prone Pashtun communities whose cooperation military forces seek to earn and maintain. The Soviets experienced this reality in the 1980s, when despite killing hundreds of thousands of Afghans, they faced a larger insurgency near the end of the war than they did at the beginning.

Given these two lessons, we must ask why, out of the hundreds of intel analysts working in brigade-level and regional command-level headquarters, only a miniscule fraction study governance, development, and local populations – all topics that must be understood in order to prevail. “Why the Intel Fusion Center can’t give me data about the population is beyond me,” remarked the operations officer of one U.S. task force, echoing a common complaint: “I don’t want to say we’re clueless, but we are. We’re no more than fingernail deep in our understanding of the environment.”

DEF:System Administrators (SysAdmin)The “second half” blended force that wages the peace after the Leviathan force has successfully waged war. Therefore, it is a force optimized for such categories of operations as “stability and support operations” (SASO), postconflict stabilization and reconstruction operations, “humanitarian assistance/disaster relief” (HA/DR), and any and all operations associated with low-intensity conflict (LIC), counterinsurgency operations (COIN), and small-scale crisis response. Beyond such military-intensive activities, the SysAdmin force likewise provides civil security with its police component, as well as civilian personnel with expertise in rebuilding networks, infrastructure, and social and political institutions. While the core security and logistical capabilities are derived from uniformed military components, the SysAdmin force is fundamentally envisioned as a standing capacity for interagency (i.e., among various U.S. federal agencies) and international collaboration in nation-building, meaning that both the SysAdmin force and function end up being more civilian than uniform in composition, more government-wide than just Defense Department, more rest-of-the-world than just the United States, and more private-sector-invested than public-sector-funded.SOURCE: http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/glossary.htm

Security: Nothing done.

Security: Nothing done.

( my comments in CAPS, G )

The following message by Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair was sent to employees of the United States Intelligence Community:

We had strategic intelligence that al Qa’ida in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP) had the intention of taking action against the United States. We did not direct more resources against AQAP, nor insist that the watchlisting criteria be adjusted.

THEY KNEW AQ WAS COMING BUT DIDN'T GIVE TSA ACCESS TO THE WATCHLIST, AND STILL HAVE NOT

GIVEN THEN ACCESS TO THE WATCH LIST.G( Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment. TIDE LIST, they all get striped searched, G )

The Intelligence Community analysts who were working hard on immediate threats to Americans in Yemen did not understand the fragments of intelligence on what turned out later to be Mr. Abdulmutallab, so they did not push him onto the “no fly” list.

HIS DAD CALLED THE CIA AND OTHERS TO WARN THEM. THEY PUT HIM ON A WATCH LIST AND DID NOT GIVE

TSA ACCESS TO THE WATCH LIST, THIS WOULD HAVE GIVEN TSA REASON TO DO A STRIP SEARCH.G

Enhancing the criteria for adding individuals to the terrorist watchlist and “no fly” watchlist.

WHICH TSA DOESN'T HAVE ACCESSS TO.G

While the December 25 attempt exposed improvement needs and flaws in coordination, it did not expose weakness in the concepts of intelligence reform or suggest that its progress should be redirected. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) and the progress of the past five years will continue to guide our future improvements.

OBTUSE OBTUSE OBTUSE G

The job of collecting, analyzing, and integrating information on a global scale is difficult, and this community performs that work at high levels every day. We will sustain our dedication and professionalism to the tasks we now face. We will leverage this challenge to emerge even stronger and more able to provide the support to national security that President Obama hailed as critical to our future.

We will meet this challenge. I am confident that together we will deliver to the President the improvements he has called for.

THEY HAVEN'T DONE DIDDLY, OUR PARADIGM INTEL SUGGESTS THE GOVERNMENT HASN'T COME CLEAN ABOUT ALL THEY KNEW ON THIS CASE.G

Dennis C. Blair

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WE ARE NOT ANY SAFER NOW THAN BEFORE THIS INCIDENT, STILL FUMBLING.

G

Anthropologist

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MORE

The White House concluded in a report issued Thursday that "a series of systematic breakdowns" contributed to the failure to prevent the failed Christmas Day bombing of a trans-Atlantic airliner bound for Detroit.NOW read:
The White House review found the complex system of maintaining multiple watch lists "is not broken," but John Brennan, the deputy national security adviser who supervised the review, said the process of feeding information into the watch list system must be strengthened.SOURCE: NPR

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Talking out of both sides of their mouth and saying NOT A DAMN THING.
It wasn't broken it never worked,G

Hussain said a "CIA agent" contacted Pakistani Taliban commanders and said he'd been trained by the agency to take on militants but that he was willing to attack the U.S. intelligence operation on the militants' behalf. He did not specify the nationality of the "agent." "Thank God that we then trained him and sent him to the Khost air base. The one who was their own man, he succeeded in getting his target," Hussain told an AP reporter who travelled to see him in South Waziristan on Friday. ( three days after attack. G ) The region is where Pakistan's army is waging a military offensive aimed at dismantling the Pakistani Taliban.

Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid had earlier said the attack was carried out by an Afghan Army officer.SOURCE:

"he'd been trained by the agency to take on militants"
"Thank God that we then trained him and sent him to the Khost air base."
"Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid had earlier said the attack was carried out by an Afghan Army officer."

"According to one of the club's guards, the CIA employees, dressed in Afghan uniform were in the the club discussing as an army officer entered the club and set off his explosive-packed vest, killing and injuring all inside the club.

In fact, it is not the first time that the Afghan military people, out of true Islamic feelings and inspiration, carry out such frontal attacks on the infidel invaders;"

Our Paradigm Intel
Our intel indicates the Taliban C2 was out of the loup on this suicide bombing.
They didn't train him, and maybe some lower level Taliban set it up without prior approval
or notice to above, with out expectation of success or without knowing who the final target would be.

The Taliban are reacting post attack based on news reports, and trying to take
credit for a rogue or spontaneous operation.
Taliban C2 had no advanced warning or hand in the operation.

It was as much of a surprise to the Taliban leadership as it was to the CIA.

And post attack the Taliban have been scrambling to make it look
like they were in charge.

Paki children abused by Taliban

The Taliban have no honor:

Training Moslem children to become suicide bombers.

The children were from the local area. He says the parents would send them thinking they were getting an education and, more importantly, free food."But they don't know what kind of religious education their child is being put through."The ( Paki ) military says that the compound could house some 200-300 children.

Nawaz Kot, Pakistan (CNN) -- "When we got to this compound it was shocking for us," Lt. Col. Yusuf tells us, standing in the middle of what the Pakistani military says was a brainwashing center -- for children.

It was here, according to the Pakistani military, that children aged 12 to 18 were turned from innocent youngsters into cold-blooded killers, willing to blow themselves to bits as suicide bombers.

The discovery of the compound was first reported in Pakistani media last month. Yusuf says his unit took it over after a three day battle with militants.

The images may appear simple. But for the children from this part of Pakistan they are captivating. They grow up in abject poverty surrounded by dirt-colored mountains with treacherous gullies and valleys with no exposure to the outside world. They are gullible and easily manipulated.

Part of the compound consists of four rooms -- each wall adorned with brightly colored paintings in clear contrast to the barren and harsh landscape surrounding it. The children were told that this was what awaited them in heaven.

Each of the images has a river flowing through it. Some have people playing in the water. Others have women lining the banks.

The military says that the children are told that these are rivers of milk and honey, that the women are the virgins that await them in heaven. That the children were told that they will live in the company of the holy prophet and be served feasts

"They [the militants] say life is a waste here and if you do a good thing you will go to heaven, immediately to heaven. For someone who does not have anything to look forward to, who does not have any opportunities and is living a wretched life, this sort of thing comes as a big incentive," Hussein explains.

He says the children end up believing that their life in this world is worthless, that life only starts in the hereafter. The Taliban is offering them a fast track option to paradise, a longed for escape from their daily reality surrounded by violence.

Part of the compound consists of four rooms -- each wall adorned with brightly colored paintings in clear contrast to the barren and harsh landscape surrounding it. The children were told that this was what awaited them in heaven.

Bad news for Taliban

CIA used to just be doing a job, NOW its personal.

From our sources inside the Beltway.

Before there were about 250 UAV sorties a day over AfPak. After CIA killings the count last week => over 600 a day now and climbing, particularly over Afghanistan. Before we might have 2-3 UAVs working a strike, now we have 4-5 on each strike and enough UAV's everywhere 24/7 that their presence no longer signals to the muj that a strike is on.

More UAVs on the way. Also a new secret Mini Hornet killer UAV, Targets individuals and very small groups.Taliban admin and C2 to come under constant strikes.Strikes more surgical and will increase by an order of magnitude.

Feb 23, 2009 ... MIRANSHAH: The Taliban in Waziristan announced forming a 'Shura Ittehadul Mujahideen' (Council of United Mujahideen) on Sunday to wage jihad ...warintel.blogspot.com/2009/02/council-of-united-mujahideen.html

Horns of a dilemma, Afpak/Yemen

Horns of a dilemma

But why did Al Qaeda’s small franchise - which formed in Saudi Arabia in 2003, staged a bombing spree, fought losing gun battles in Saudi streets, but gained strength after a 2006 jailbreak in Yemen, where it has relocated - launch an “external” operation against the U.S. homeland?
Terrorism analysts are wondering what the answer to this question may be, and “so are we,” a top White House aide told me Sunday.
So for whatever Team Obama is certain of, in terms of the suspect’s ties to what had previously been a regionally focused terror group, they are much less certain why AQAP is suddenly trying to upstage “core” Al Qaeda, headed by Bin Laden, with a U.S. strike. Past attacks by AQAP had targeted U.S. interests such as our embassy in Sanaa - which Obama closed on Sunday

Horn one:
Because of the huge number of drone attacks, some of them close to Binny,
the al Qaeda is trying to refocus USA on Yemen to get some respite in Afpak.
They hope this will turn USA attention from the unrelenting drone attacks
and deaths of its Cadre.

Horn Two:
al Qaeda leader ship binny and Big Z have escaped Afpak and the unrelenting
drone attacks. They have escaped to Yemen. And are directing International
Ops under less USA Intel agencys monitoring in Yemen than in Afpak.
Binny and big Z taking a vacation and have created and are directing Ops.

We are watching key indicators that will point to one horn or the other.

UPDATE:
Killing the 7 CIA agents just ramps up the heat in Afpak by
an order of several magnitudes.
If al Qaeda was trying to switch the heat to Yemen, killing
7 CIA agents contra indicated, but it may have been to juicy
a target to resist. ( paradigm intel points to the Taliban C2
in the dark about the CIA bombing till after the Fact. see below. G )

If Binny and big Z are in Yemen killing the CIA agents,
would fit that paradigm without difficulty.

Further indications may be picked up in the official Terrorist
response to the Killings.

UPDATE: If al Qaeda leadership isn't out of Afpak,they will be, killing the CIA will increasethe heat on them several magnitudes.The next best developing area for the Terroristis Yemen, Somalia geo.Read: Taliban surprised at CIA bombing.

7 CIA killed, Backgrounder

From a source we have found reliable in the past:

CIA base was our primary UAV targeting base, central clearinghouse of informant reports. Attacker was a familiar, well connected to the Haqqani's and a legit HV asset. The station chief trusted him and personally escorted him in. Just a fatal error in judgement.

The informant had been on the base many times and was being personally escorted by the CIA base station chief. The informant was a double-agent and had been feeding legit targeting to CIA for over a year. The Haqqani's are that ... ruthless, they sacrificed their people to Hellfire strikes, in order to vet the informant......

After getting such deep cover, the informant indicated that he was ready to give up AQ hvt's, including bin Laden, and the whole Haqqani network. ........... By doing so, the informant was able to draw in more than just his handler for a meeting where he was going to lay out all he knew.

So, some of the intel team assembled, including a Jordanian intel officer, and the informant, led past security by the station chief, wearing an Afghan army officer uniform, detonated a bomb in their midst. He killed some of our most experienced in-country intel team.

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Luckily some key team members were late and they will be able to pick backup right where the other 7 left off.

Pay backs are a Bitch.The operation resulted in minimal results
and maximum consequences.

The Taliban's stupidity always amazes me.
Just when I think they CAN'T get any more
stupid, they F**k up an Anvil.

To these humble Jihads eternal life is to come, and we pray for God's mercy to be with the departed, in hopes that they may find peace and happiness in the life to come.

I'm confident their last words were "Laa ilaaha illa-Allah: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah."

In many cases they were buried in the clothes they died in.In honor of these Mujaheddin we can all say our own salat-l-janazah.Just take a moment at your computer now to say salat-l-janazah.

May Allah accept the burial condition of these holy Martrs regardlessif they were buried on their side facing Mecca or not.

Sometimes in war things are difficult and beyond one's desires.humbly we remember Allah and His mercy, and pray for the deceased Martyrs.

In thier honor I will not wear a tie of jewelry for 3 days.

"The eyes shed tears and the heart is grieved, but we will not say anything except which pleases our Lord."

These Martyrs charity given during their life which continues to help others, knowledge from which people continue to benefit, and a righteous child who prays for him or her continues to benifitthese brave Mujaheddin.

As noble it is to die in battle—that is, to die at the enemy’s hands in a just cause—so has it been considered shameful to willfully take one’s own life.

Shahadat, martyrdom is identified the exemplary ethical model of moral action in a show of struggle (jihad) for the sacred, manifested in the ultimate act of self-sacrifice.

The (male) martyr or shahidencountered the sacred by fighting against the enemies of the true religion; and in the process giving up his life in exchange for a higher, celestial existence. In this regard, it was not merely the event of death that identified martyrdom, but the very fulfillment of the duty of obedience to the will of God that brought one to the level of sacred.

They are in Paradise, where "beautiful mansions" and "maidens" await the martyr heroes.

The list of the Brave, HOLY martyred Mujaheddin 400+.HEREa MUST READ. G )